Juicero
NOTES: Juicero: The Newtonian Force Of Ego
Juicero wasn't just a business failure; it was a $120M Britpop B-side of peak tech delusion. Why human hands beat Silicon Valley’s fear of the physical.
Marcus
Marcus is a forensic engineer of the discarded. He built the "Ostrich Algorithm" in 2024—a noise filter turned muzzle. Living in "optimized" agitation, he sifts through toxic debt and rotting hardware to name the wreckage, not save it.
AI Bubble
NOTES: Coreweave/Lambda: Hotel California in the Server Rack
Welcome to the AI Hotel California. Choking on Sedona humidity and lukewarm coffee while 80,000 H100s burn venture capital. The cloud is a locked cage.
Cislunar Mirage
NOTES: Rocket Lab/ Intuitive: The CapEx of Gravity
The Cislunar economy is a taxpayer-funded mirage. From leaky LUNR buckets to RKLB's lonely Time Lord CEO, here's how to get skint betting on a graveyard.
Biotech Bubble
NOTES: Beam Therapeutics: Editing The Ghost Engine
Beam Therapeutics is selling a gene-editing miracle, but with toxic livers and a CEO cashing out, the banana stand is burning. A brutal look at the spin.
Bodega Backlash
NOTES: Google Glass: Ghosts of the Glass
Google Glass wasn't just a tech fail; it was a hostile takeover of your eyeball. Dive into the Bodega Backlash and the terrifying rise of stealth-optics.
Gibson-esque Hustle
NOTES: The Lark Distillery: The Bass Strait Betrayal
Lark Distillery sold its soul for an ASX ticker. Exposing the $1,200 Gibson-esque hustle, fake heritage, and the Bass Strait betrayal of Tassie whisky.
Three-Wash T-Shirt
NOTES: Fast Fashion: Entropy in Acid Green
The 92% emissions spike isn't a metric; it's the engine screaming. A sarcastic lament for the three-wash t-shirt and the death of high-resolution identity.
Digital Protection Racket
NOTES: Cloudflare: Cloudfare's Free Lunch is a Digital Protection Racket
Cloudflare's 'free' egress is a digital protection racket. We expose the Roach Motel Tax and why their 'Global Immune System' is suffocating developers.
Economics of Hubris
NOTES: Northrop Grumman: The Economics Of Hubris
Northrop's lunar mission is property management with rocket fuel. Dive into the economics of hubris, cost-plus bloat, and a maxed-out credit card.
Tech Fail
NOTES: Intellia: A Cure So Good It Might Bankrupt You
Intellia promises a one-time genetic cure, but their CRISPR tech is like throwing a spanner in a Swiss watch. Unpacking the Ostrich Algorithm and spin.
Tech Fails
NOTES: The Segway: The Chariot In The Gutter
From urban prophecy to a $5,000 neon joke. Why the Segway was a nervous wreck of 'Cactus Tech' that suffered unprotected exposure to the real world.
Akamai crash
NOTES: Akamai: Akamai's Ghost in the Machine is a Toll Bridge to Nowhere
Akamai's 72-hour outage wasn't a rogue AI—it was old plumbing choking on a 512-byte DNS packet. Welcome to the $900M toll bridge to nowhere.